Japan's borders remain mostly closed to foreigners, but the capital recorded just 24 new coronavirus infections on Friday, allowing festival organizers to host a full-scale in-person event. By Patrick ...

Haruhiko Kuroda answers questions during a press conference following a two-day policy board meeting at the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on August 7, 2015. As Japan’s 2021 staggers toward a close, no one is ...

TOKYO — Almost overnight, Japan has become an extraordinary, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Daily new cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo down to ...

Tokyo and its surrounding area were shaken by a powerful earthquake on Thursday, with early reports saying it caused buildings to sway in the Japanese capital but bringing no concerns of a tsunami. A ...

TOKYO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister said on Wednesday that the government had overstated the value of some construction orders received from builders for years, in a blow to the ...

The most important development for Taiwan’s security might be unfolding right now in Japan. Tokyo’s strategy toward Taiwan is dramatically shifting. Once reluctant to join all but the most anodyne of ...

Fujitsu Ryota, programming advisor for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s anime section, has taken ‘onko-chishin,’ a four-kanji-character term meaning “respect the past, create the new,” as the ...

As Tokyo hosts the Deaflympics, organizers hope to further gains made in the realm of greater inclusivity throughout Japan.

Locally-made films, especially animated titles, dominated the Japanese box office in 2021. The territory is usually the world’s third biggest cinema market, behind China and North America. Though ...